Donnica Moore

Donnica Moore is an American physician and women's health advocate, best known as an author and media commentator on women's health issues. Moore, who is known professionally as Dr. Donnica, has appeared multiple times on U.S. television shows such as CNN, the Tyra Banks Show, The View,^[1] ABC,^[2][3][4] and is quoted in several articles on the health website WebMD.^[5] In 2007 Moore gained attention for teaching TV presenter Tyra Banks to breast feed on Banks' television talk show.^[6][7] Footage of the lesson accumulated over two million views on YouTube.^[8] Her book, Women's Health for Life, is a popular resource on women's health.^[3][9][10]

Early life and family

After growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Moore entered Princeton University at age 16, graduating in 1981.^[11] She was the oldest of six children^[11] of Dennis B. and Toby Moore.^[12] She attended the University College of Dublin School of Medicine as a Rotary International Graduate Fellow before receiving her M.D. from SUNY Buffalo in 1986.^[12][13]

Career

Moore completed two years of residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Temple University, and an additional year in family medicine at Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, New Jersey.^[14] According to a 2003 profile in Women in Medicine, she did not complete her training because after undergoing a spinal surgery, her surgeon recommended she not continue a physically demanding medical practice.^[11]

After leaving her residency, Moore became Medical Director for Sandoz pharmaceuticals, and made public statements on the company's behalf regarding the safety at least one Sandoz product under FDA scrutiny.^[15]

Publications

Moore is co-editor, with Sarah Jarvis, of the popular women's health book Women's Health for Life, (ISBN 0756642779) published in March 2009, by DK Publishing.^[9][10]

She is listed as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association in 1994,^[16] and as an editorial board member in 1997.^[17]

Organizational affiliations

Moore serves on the advisory board of cancerandcareers.org.^[18]

Moore is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Women's Health Research.^[19]

Dr. Moore is on the Medical Advisory Board of The Dr. Oz Show.^[20]

Appearances

Moore is most well known for her former role as the weekly women’s health contributor for NBC's Later Today Show (1999–2000) and for her frequent appearances on NBC's Weekend Today Show, CNN in 2005^[21] and 2006,^[22] The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Good Morning America, and others.^{[1][2][3][4][8]}

Moore claims to have 550 television appearances as of March, 2008.^[23][24]

Awards

On November 16, 2007, Moore was one of twelve recipients of the Women in Government Presidential Leadership Award for her efforts to promote cervical cancer prevention.^[13]

Works

Articles

• WebMD articles:

Videos

• Appearances on the Tyra Banks Show: "Tyra's Lesson in Breastfeeding",^[25] "Your Most Intimate Questions Answered: Find out what's going on DOWN THERE",^[26] and "Best Week Ever".^[27]
• Appearances on The Morning Show with Mark and Juliet: "Can Breastfeeding Make Your Child Smarter"^[28] and "The Signs of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome".^[29]
• Appearances on The View: "Highlights",^[30] "Menopause Gum",^[31] "Special episode on women's health issues",^[32] and "Women's health issues episode recap".^[33]
• Other appearances: Life... Supplemented on WCJB-ABC,^[34] WPTY,^[35] Myths on Women's Health on WNCR,^[36] and YouTube.^[37]

References

External links

• Official website